CAIT petitions Piyush Goyal against foreign e-commerce firms

Retailers association CAIT has petitioned Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal against foreign e-commerce companies allegedly flouting lockdown norms to deliver non-essential items and unfairly gaining market share at the cost of small merchants.

In a two-page letter to Goyal, Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) national general secretary Praveen Khandelwal alleged that Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart were making “illegitimate financial gains” by supplying non-essential items such as mobile phones, kitchen appliances, electronics and accessories during the lockdown.